biography
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Ångström, Anders (Jonas)
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pronunciation:
[angstruhm, ongstr
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| male
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| lived:
| (1814–74)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Lögdö, E Sweden. He was keeper of the observatory at Uppsala (1843), and became professor of physics there in 1858. He wrote on heat, magnetism, and especially optics. The ångstrom unit, used in crystallography and spectroscopy, is named after him. His son, Knut Johan Ångström (1857–1910), was also a noted Uppsala physicist, important for his research on solar radiation. |
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